With “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” still breaking records at the box office and the new animated film “Frozen” off to a strong start, consumers showed an appetite for moviegoing that should carry through to robust five-day grosses.

“The Hunger Games” – has there ever been a more appropriately titled Thanksgiving blockbuster? – set a holiday record at the box office, grossing an estimated $14.9 million on Thursday.

The sequel starring Jennifer Lawrence as warrior Katniss Everdeen is expected to top the chart for the second week in a row, and could hit $100 million in its five-day haul after opening to $158 million last Friday. The Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. movie is seeing particularly strong business abroad, with a worldwide cumulative gross of $423 million so far.

But even with the record-breaking success of “The Hunger Games,” the holiday weekend is shaping up to be a hearty one for at least one other recent release. “Frozen,” the latest animated feature from Walt Disney Co., has collected a strong $26.6 million since opening on Wednesday. The movie, featuring the voices of Kristen Bell and Jonathan Groff, should hover around $80 million when the weekend is over.

Other new releases fizzled. “Homefront,” the Open Road Films production about a family man taking on a drug kingpin, has grossed $2.8 million so far. And “Black Nativity” from Fox Searchlight failed to find early footing, grossing $1.1 million since opening Wednesday. Fox Searchlight is the specialty film unit of 21st Century Fox Inc., which until recently was part of the same company as the Wall Street Journal.

The month of successful movies, which also included Walt Disney Co.’s “Thor: The Dark World” and “The Best Man Holiday” from Comcast Corp.’s Universal Pictures, helped give Comcast’s Fandango.com ticket service its best-selling month in company history. The company’s previous top-selling month was November of last year, which included movies such as “The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, Part 2” and “Wreck-It Ralph.”

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